The Nation: Attila's Inner Circle

Odd, isn't it, how practically everybody in Richard Nixon's inner
circle now claims, "I was never really close to him"? The
phrase, or something like it, pops up in The Final Days and in the
novel ground out by newly minted Author John Ehrlichman; Knopf only
knows where it will appear next. All of which prompted Christian
Science Monitor Columnist-at-Large (and TIME Books Contributor) Melvin
Maddocks to weigh in last week with excerpts from a recently discovered
5th century manuscript titled I Was Never Really Close to Attila the
Hun. Samples: